Haunted Stirling | Free Book
David Kinnaird
From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related
supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and
spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and well-known
spooky tales from around Stirling. A whole chapter is dedicated to the
mysterious goings-on at Stirling Castle, where cleaners in the King's
Old Building claimed to have heard footsteps coming from the third
floor — which hasn't existed since a fire in the nineteenth-century;
while a 1930s photograph purports to capture the shadow of a phantom
guardsman — possibly the same 'Highland Soldier' often reportedly
mistaken by tourists for a castle guide. The town itself has no
shortage of fascinating tales, including the story of the Old Town's
most famous phantom, seventeenth-century merchant John 'Auld Staney
Breeks' Cowane, whose spirit is said to inhabit his statue each
Hogmanay. A playful ghost supposedly throws pots and pans around the
kitchens of the Darnley Coffee House, while frequent power failures
and mishaps in the Tolbooth Theatre — originally the
eighteenth-century Burgh jail — are blamed upon the malicious spirit
of the last man hanged, Alan Mair. Drawing on historical and
contemporary sources, Haunted Stirling is guaranteed to intrigue and
chill both believers and sceptics alike.
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